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Tre Ford threw two TD passes and Marc Liegghio kicked seven field goals to power the Hamilton Tiger-Cats past the Ottawa Redblacks 35-22 on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Liegghio finished one field goal short of Paul Osbaldiston’s club record.<\/p>\n

The Ticats (6-12) earned just a second win over their final eight regular-season games. Both were against Ottawa as Hamilton claimed a 34-16 decision at TD Place on Oct. 2.<\/p>\n

Ford finished 18-of-25 passing for 170 yards. He also ran eight times for 52 yards.<\/p>\n

Ottawa (1-17) was coming off its first win of the year, a 40-39 decision versus Toronto. But the Redblacks committed four turnovers and allowed a partially blocked punt that Hamilton converted into two touchdowns and two field goals.<\/p>\n

The loss was Ottawa’s 23rd in 24 games dating back to last season. The Redblacks set a CFL record for most losses to open a season, with 16.<\/p>\n

Bryson Barnes was 13-of-26 passing for 163 yards and two interceptions in his second CFL start. Barnes threw for 339 yards and two TDs last week versus Toronto.<\/p>\n

Veteran Jake Maier, who was 0-12 earlier this year as Ottawa’s starter, completed 13-of-15 passes for 131 yards in the fourth quarter. Maier had TD passes of five yards to Ayden Eberhardt and three yards to Justin Hardy.<\/p>\n

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Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Jake Maier looks to throw a pass against Hamilton on Saturday. (Nick Iwanyshyn\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

Hamilton earned a sixth straight win over Ottawa and 16th in 18 matchups overall.<\/p>\n

Jaelen Gill and Larry Rountree III scored Hamilton’s touchdowns. Liegghio added the converts.<\/p>\n

Ottawa’s Paul Geelen kicked three field goals and a convert.<\/p>\n

Rountree’s five-yard TD grab at 14:40 of the third moved the Ticats up 35-9. It followed Ryan Baker’s partially blocked punt.<\/p>\n

Liegghio’s 37-yard field goal at 5:02 moved Hamilton ahead 25-9. His seventh of the game, from 42 yards out at 6:42, stretched the Ticats’ lead to 28-9.<\/p>\n

The kickers dominated the opening half with eight combined field goals, the last being Liegghio’s 53-yard boot to end the half. That gave Hamilton a 22-9 lead as the Ticats scored 10 points off three Ottawa turnovers.<\/p>\n

Geelen hit a 28-yard kick at 14:33 after Liegghio’s 22-yard field goal at 13:43. It was set up by Isaiah Wooden Sr.’s 45-yard punt return.<\/p>\n

A scrambling Ford found Gill on a 16-yard TD pass at 10:49 to put Hamilton up 16-6. It followed Wynton McManis’s 33-yard interception return.<\/p>\n

Liegghio gave Hamilton a 9-6 lead with a 40-yard field goal at 4:18. It came after Barnes was stopped on third-and-one at Ottawa’s 39-yard line.<\/p>\n

Geelen made it 6-6 with a 53-yard field goal at 14:20 of the first after Liegghio’s 46-yarder at 11:26. Liegghio connected from 34 yards out at 7:17 after Geelen’ s 28-yard field goal at 3:57 opened the scoring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-945162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}